The Low Countries. Jaargang 4

Inhoudsopgave

Water and the Netherlands Friends or Foes?

Ten Water Poems

The Terminus of the Continent The Life and Times of Ostend

Art Nouveau in Flanders

The Sounds of the Low Countries

New Music in Flanders

Gay behind the Dikes Homosexual Emancipation and Marriage in the Netherlands

A World of Difference Women in the Netherlands and Flanders

‘A Tribute to Fine Schooling’ The Royal Flanders Ballet

A Champion with a Cause? Conflicting Views on Multatuli

An Awkward Anniversary Indonesia and the Netherlands: Decolonisation Fifty Years On

The Quest for his Dreamland Jeroen Brouwers' East Indies Triptych

Extract from The Flood by Jeroen Brouwers

Hella S. Haasse and the Historical Novel or: The Triumph of Fact over Fiction

Extract from Gentlemen of Tea by Hella S. Haasse

‘One Train May Be Hiding Another’ History, Memory and Identity in Film and Television

Looking for the Ultimate Painting Thoughts on the Work of Raoul de Keyser

Truth Kills The Art of Jan Vercruysse

Arranger of Voices The Literary Work of Leo Pleysier

Extract from White Always Looks Good by Leo Pleysier

Extract from The Yellow River Is Frozen by Leo Pleysier

The Tale of a Cow

A Brief History of the Dutch Language

Flemish Nationalism, a Rainbow Phenomenon

James van Artevelde, Myth or Reality?

‘The Life of Man Is like unto a Flower’ The Life and Work of Maria Sibylla Merian

In Search of the Unknown South-Land Abel Tasman and New Zealand

The Mystery of the Milky Way The Painter Eugène Brands' Fascination

Martinus Nijhoff, a Dutch Master of Modernism

Five Poems and One Fragment by Martinus Nijhoff

Lucebert: As a Poet a Visionary, as a Painter an Eye-Witness

Four Poems by Lucebert

‘A Living Idea in Time’ The Work of Maurice Gilliams

Four Poems by Maurice Gilliams

Extract from Elias, or The Struggle with the Nightingales by Maurice Gilliams

A Boxful of Styles The Work of Jan Toorop

Relativity and Architecture The Work of Aldo van Eyck

Edward Schillebeeckx and Christian Humanism

A Dutchman for All Seasons The Life and Works of Erasmus of Rotterdam

Chronicle Architecture Contemporary Architecture in Belgium

Cultural Policy Closing the Ranks and Opening the Gates The Association for Low Countries Studies

Dutch Studies in South Africa

Dutch Cultural Policy: the Colonial Experience

Fixed Book Price in Difficulties

Film and Theatre Marleen Gorris, a Feminist Moralist

Manneken Pis A Belgian Film from Flanders

P.A.R.T.S. A School of Contemporary Dance

History An Eager Apprentice Peter the Great and the Netherlands

England and the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages

Small History Geert Mak's Amsterdam

The Netherlands as the World's First Modern Economy

Language Language Databases for Dutch

‘People say that Dutch is a language for horses’ James Boswell and the Dutch Language

A Complete Dutch Course for Beginners

Literature The Grotesque Narratives of the Poet Paul van Ostaijen

The Message of Meaninglessness The Books of Willem Frederik Hermans

Versions and Translations of Dutch-Language Poetry

Literary Translation Some Personal Experiences

Internationalism versus Nationalism The Work of Anne Provoost

Beekman's Indies

Music Toots Thielemans, a Poeta Universalis of Jazz

Independent Record Labels in the Netherlands

Twenty Years of Folk in the Field at Dranouter

Science and Philosophy Nobel Prize for Paul J. Crutzen

Louis Dupré, a Philosopher of Culture and Religion

Society The Flemish Parliament

‘Let's keep it gezellig’ An Odyssey into the Dutch Psyche

Visual Arts The Artist Peter Vos

Rubens' House Fifty Years as a Museum

Jan Steen's Comic Vision

Vermeer and the Art of Optical Disillusion

In the Shadow of Vermeer Master Forger Han van Meegeren

The European Ceramics Work Centre in 's-Hertogenbosch

The Etchings of Jules de Bruycker

Going Out in Style Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1475-1550

Bibliography of Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced in 1995)

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